Jagjit with his bushy white moustache and large green turban cheerfully organizes a pile of lettuce on his vegetable stand at the sprawling Piazza Vittorio marketplace in Rome as he explains to me that he came to Italy from Punjab state in India 20 years ago. Not far from Jagjit, Diana from Ecuador is selling …
Cecile Kyenge, Italy’s first black minister, is once again facing vicious racist attacks. This week it started with the anti-immigrant Northern League party’s newspaper “Padania” starting a new column “Here’s Cecile Kyenge” which lists her public appearances so that party members can go heckle her. This feature appeared after she was harassed last weekend at …
Dear Blog Readers — Back in May I did a blog post on Italy’s first black Minister, Cecile Kyenge, “Call Me Black”. Sadly she’s only been at her new job for a few months and she has been bombarded with racial slurs and even death threats. One insult came this past week from the Deputy …